Number Ten-occasion for.
"Decade of Trash" awards
for services rendered
(intentional and otherwise):
Trick of the Decade: What else?
Twist-still the standard.
Poetry Awards: Best Known Poet,
Mike Vallely; Best Unknown Poet
tie Skip Engblom/Jim Thiebaud.
Best Bod: What is this, high school,
or what? Bill Tocco.
Chameleon Award: Steve
Rocco from Team Mattel to Team
Pro Hacker of Decade: Tony
Hawk, who actually checks in on the
electronic bulletin boards of the
world to see what's up, who orders
his own airline tickets and who
programs incessantly.
Most Frequently Trashed: #1
Dickvak, #2 Big Dorf. Dickvak had
so much abuse
heaped upon him
that he imported
Santa Fats Mac
to form a deflec-
tion shield.
Par to used car salesman to dry Best New Job:
cleaner to ice cream vendor to Team
Venture captain to SMA model man
to World Industries to Foundation to
Blind to?
Same Guy
Award:
Steve
Olson unchanging, unchallenged
and unavoidable.
Comeback of the Decade:
Eddie Elguera.
Biggest Grin: Ray Barbee, who's
never been seen not smiling.
Best New Trick: Omar Hassan,
the no-name: a spine transition
mi-mamba mute to blunt to spine
to invert too rail to railslide re-
entry kind of thing
S
#1 Bob Skold-
berg; from pro
skater to painter
to pro slalom
racer to business-
man (a reported
guru of a multi-
million dollar com-
pany which gives
him new surf-
boards as a
bonus). #2 Brad
Bowman, hairdresser for New Kids
on the Block.
Perpetual Motion Award: Jay
Adams, who's never stopped. This
week Jay is living in Hawaii riding
very big waves (20-foot plus) and
speed skate running Comsat Hill.
Adams keeps a personally signed
1930s Doc Bael book with him at all i
times (the title, California Surfriders).
Worst New Job: Harvey Hawks,
our apologies, a brother down but
not out. Hawks is rumored to be in
seclusion writing
a book.
Most Likely to
Succeed: Also
most likely to
exceed-Glen E.
Friedman. From
Skateboarder
Mag to Action
Now to Thrasher
to book publisher
to music mogul to
Public Enemy
and L.L. Cool J.
intimate to Anika
Portier's dinner
companion. What
next, politics?
Most Betties at
a Single Contest: (photo-
graphically verified) Al Losi.
Best Tats: (single) MoFo; (pro-
grammic) (tie) Jason Jesse/the
Godoys: (honorable mention) Fred
Smith.
Host Awards: Glug Manor,
Daytona Beach; Hensley House.
Most Style: In your face subtle,
Christian Hosoi. Always appro-
priate, always at the right spot at the
right time.
Oddest Guys who Endorsed
Skate Products: Henry Rollins,
Chuck Norris, Pee Wee Herman.
Best Radio Control Pro:
Caballero.
Best Skating Skaterock Band:
JFA (still unchallenged).
Best Video: Ban This.
Rental Car Menace Award:
James Muir, (disabled three cars in
one weekend).
Hotel Guest of Decade: Dave
Duncan, Roman candle outburst at
wedding reception.
Best Food Fight: Sizzler, Mesa,
Arizona, 1989 National Am finals.
Best New Trick Names: Beav-
air, Madonna's Derrière, Sean Penn,
Crooked Cop, Whiskey Twist.
Lucifair (the Sprinkler), French Maid,
Hood Ornament.
Lamest Fashion Trends: One:
size fits all beret/chef's hats, clam
diggers, chain wallets, nose rings.
Lamest Hair Fashions: Squeebs,
Dreads, Rat Tails, Devil Locks.
Punkest Body Tricks: Fred
Smith, nasal chain ream; Jeff
Phillips, Blue Angel Gaslighters.
Daredevil of Decade: Eddie.
Reategui, HP bomb drop off of
neighboring house; Fish, Budda-
budda tail drop, Savannah Slamma;
Steve Schneer, Hell Carve, Kahuna
Ramp, Skatepark of Houston.
Class Clown: Lance Mountain.
Ugliest Facials: Jim Murphy.
CAPRICORN
Focus on the coping, Cap. Keep in tune
with those vertical vibrations. It's a new
year in the house of grinds, and Saturn is
still aligned. Thus, an ounce of prevention
is guaranteed to save a ton of bongos
down the road. Think twice before
attempting that cess slide 50/50 disaster-
to-revert and don't even consider any
frontside invert varials until well after the
cusp. With Venus rising, now is a good
time to concentrate on. personal
appearance. Take that bath you've been
avoiding and change your lucky shorts.
Slap on a little deodorant, goat, but feel
free to grow that goatee. Pisces partners
figure prominently in your future, just as
long as your socks match and you avoid
any financial dickering.
Most Influential Ramp: Animal
Chin.
Golden Hammer: Tim Payne.
Most Injuries in Line of Duty:
Duane Peters.
Most Flagrant Disregard for
Personal Safety: Bill Weiss
(nude McTwist).
Perpetual Craziness On and
Off Board: Ben Schroeder
Most Teams: (in a week) Jeff Perpetual Awareness: Gerry
Grosso.
Best Dressed: (trying) Hosoi, (not
trying) Hensley.
Best Quote: "Why would I want a
model when I could use yours?"
Randy Katen.
NSA Achievement Award: Jeff
Grosso-allegedly booted as a
competitor, rumored to have been
removed as a spectator, allegedly
tossed as an announcer, rumored
ousted as a judge, alleged to have
been banned as a trainer and
denied as a security officer.
Loudest Guy: Who else? Grosso.
Most Quotable Guy: Lucero.
Most Unquotable: Bob Umble.
Most Unprintable Quotes: Eric
Nash.
Most Misquoted: Wade Speyer.
Quietest: Sal Barbier.
Most Devastating: (personal
interaction) Jay Alabamy.
Hurtado a.k.a Potatohead a.k.a
Taters a.k.a Skatemaster Tate-he
always knows.
Best Bail Bonds: Fat Carlos de
Fogtown via Salinas.
Most Spat Upon Harley Seat:
Lee Cole.
Most Maligned Article: Skate
and Destroy, the multiple choice.
article that said nothing but
managed to offend all those who
couldn't choose.
Most Exposed: D. David Morin,
the guy who was last blamed for kill-
ing skating and then turned into an
actor.
FINAL RIDE AWARDS:
Marina Skatepark-Christian
Hosol, 1981.
Canyon Pool-Jim
Muir, 1976.
Birdbath
One-Torger
Johnson,
1967.
Opposite Page,
Bottom: Skater
of the decade,
Tony Hawk,
talks with Ray
Barbee about
pulling tail
blunts-to-180
over the spine
in S.F. Oppo-
site Page, Top:
Adrian Demain
and Jeff
Kendall get the
humanitarian
award for their
visit to 5.F.
Children's
Hospital. Left:
Ventura, Hosoi
and Oster
displaying their
qualifications
for best bod
honors in
Waikiki.
Below: Duo of
the decade;
through thick
and thin, hell
and high water,
car wrecks, jail
cells, good
times and bad,
Fausto Vitello
(with mega-
phone) and
Eric Swenson
(dressed as
some sort of
sick joke).
Salut!
120 THRASHER MAGADNE